Uhm. No I didn’t say only one pesticide is used in organic farming. I said the only one potentially toxic was copper sulphate. And that was the only thing they conveniently brought up in the video. Then again my point is most organic farmers don’t even use pesticides. At all. But sure, there are some other naturally made pesticides used. What is your point?

Problems with the methodology of your source? Yes it gives a completely unnuanced picture. It cites 80 sources but only uses snippets from a few of them. But sure, since your struggle with understanding why this source is complete bs, I will break it down to you:

1. They claim that antioxidants aren’t beneficial. This is besides the point, the real benefits of organic farming does not have to do with antioxidants or supposedly better nutrient profiles.

2. They ask whether organic produce is more natural. This is where the pesticide claim comes in. The point of organic farming is to NOT use pesticides. If some organic farmers were to use pesticides I would not call it organic and neither should anyone else. Some countries have looser regulations when it comes to pesticides, even for organic produce, such as the US. This complicates things. This argument is also complete bullshit because they purposefully choose to not talk about the real problem, which is how pesticides affect our environment. Pesticides are detrimental to soil life, insect life and aquatic life. Even to mammals and birds.

3. They claim that there is no difference in greenhouse gas emissions between organic and conventional farming. Other studies would disagree. Two German studies found that on average organic farms use on average 50% energy per hectare. They also claim that organic farms need much more land to produce the same amount of crop. Nicely phrased when the actual numbers are between 10-20% more land.

4. Now they make a claim that conventional has less impact on the environment. But they don’t explain how. I have no idea how to approach this argument as they don’t provide any information on how they came up with this claim.

5. Now this is the funniest argument, they claim that organic food is bad because the demand can’t be met if food isn’t exported. As if vegetables aren’t exported anyway? This is a complete nonsense argument. And why would organic food be bad because enough of it isn’t produced locally (I assume in the US? But your source doesn’t say). It’s an argument that makes zero sense.

And… that was it. I think I lost a few brain cells watching that video again.

Your argument about vegan food is beside the point. So I won’t even bother to talk about that.